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AL A.
 
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Default Bletchley Park and the Enigma

I saw a guy with several Enigma machines, complete with manuals, for sale at
a ham radio flea market in New Hampshire last fall.
He wanted 10 or 12 K for each, if I remember correctly. He was also selling
copies of the manuals on CD, with engilsh translation.

I asked where he got them, and he said that he travels to Germany
frequently, and that they "turn up" if you ask enough
people. He said thet there are still some floating around that where issued
to officers and government officals that ended up
in attics and garages at the end of the war thet get discovered from time to
time.
Neat thing to see.


"Ian Sutherland" wrote in message
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Hi folks, Just before I visited Bletchley Park in about June 2000,
Their Enigma was stolen, I think from memory on April the first. No
joke, there was quite a storm about how it could be stolen from there,
I'm sure I read that it was eventually recovered. B.T.W. in almost all
of the W.W.II. museums in Germany there is at least one Enigma(plus
lots of other interesting stuff)

Cheer's, Ian Sutherland (Oz)